CPI Meets The Brief For Harvey Nichols

The project involved a wide range of natural products, such as sandstone, granite and natural slate chosen to blend in with the surrounding architecture.

For one of Scotland's largest and most prestigious retail developments, situated in an architecturally sensitive area in the centre of Edinburgh, the architects and contractors required a dry mortar system that could guarantee consistent colour and quality and reduce congestion on site.

CPI Mortars' silo mixing station and its EuroMix mortar met the brief.

The £30 million redevelopment of 30-34 St Andrew Square into an open pedestrian street, designed to reflect the exclusive stores of London's Bond Street and the traditional Georgian manner of the surrounding architecture, includes a 100,000 square foot Harvey Nichols, some twenty five shops occupied by fashion and lifestyle retailers, a 40,000 square foot suite of offices and a new airport-style bus terminal.

CPI Mortars, the market leader in dry mortar technology, provided main contractor Balfour Beatty with their silo mixing station for use throughout the project.

The system has proved its worth on the toughest site conditions throughout Europe, guaranteeing mix proportions, reducing wastage and providing faster and more efficient site progress.

The system is based around a silo, which is delivered to site by CPI, containing factory-produced pre-mixed dry mortar.

The system is simply linked to a power and water supply and, at the touch of a button, discharges mixed mortar ready for use.

Each silo can contain up to 35 tonnes of dry mix mortar and when required, can be refilled on site by one of CPI's tankers, ensuring a constant supply of mortar.

All EuroMix mortars, screeds and renders are manufactured to BS EN ISO 9001:2000, come backed with the company's full technical advisory service and site training is provided for each silo installation.

The silo mixing system offers real benefits in terms of cost savings, productivity and performance as it is significantly more efficient than the traditional on site mixing of mortars and wastage is negligible.

The system also takes up very little space on site making it ideal for sites such as Edinburgh town centre where space is limited.

The completion of the project, which involved a wide range of natural products, such as sandstone, granite and natural slate chosen to blend in with the surrounding architecture, represents yet another major project success for CPI who have worked with many of the UK's leading house builders, contractors, architects and consultants, providing them with a simple to use, highly cost-effective and high quality mortar system.

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